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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border X , b ,<- Y^ ^ f t j^ ^ n ^ c ti.-c- : MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER: CONSISTING OF HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC BALLADS, COLLECTED IN THE SOUTHERN COUN^TIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FE> OF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED UPON LOCAL TRADITION. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. FIFTH EDITION. The songs, to savatre lirtiie dear. That u'oti of yore the pulUc car. Ere Polity, sedate and sage. Had quench'd the fres offeudal fage. —Wauton. EDINBURGH PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, LONDON ; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH. 1821. Frinicd by James Ballautyiic arid Co. Edinbutgh, CONTENTS VOLUME FIRST. PAGE. Dedication, iii Intkoduction, V PART FIRST. HISTORICAL BALLADS. Sir Patrick Spens, 3 Auld Maitland, 15 Battle of Otterbourne, 57 The Sang of the Outlaw Murray^ 81 Johnie Armstraiig, 107 Lord Ewrie, 133 The Lochmaben Harper, 138 Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead, 146 The Raid of the Reidswire, 161 Kinmont Willie, 181 Dick o' the Cow, 212 Jock o' the Side, 229 VI COMTKXTS. PAGE. The Death of Featherstonhaugh, 240 Hobbie Noble, 246 Rookhope Ryde, 260 Bartliram's Dirge, 273 Archie of Ca'field, 278 Armstrong's Goodnight, 287 The Fray of Suport, 288 Lord Jlaxwell's Goodnight, 298 The Lads of Wamphray, 314 MINSTRELSY SCOTTISH BORDER. Hrs GRACF. HENRY, DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, c^c. c^c. c^-r. THESE TALES, WHICH IN ELDER TIMES ItAVE CELEBRATED THE PROWESS, AND CHEERED THE ICALLS, OF HIS GALLANT ANCESTORS, ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY HIS grace's much obliged AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT, WALTER SCOTT. INTKODUCTION. Jb ROM the remote period, when the Roman pro- vince was contracted by the ramparts of Severus, until the union of the kingdoms, the Borders of Scotland formed the stage, upon which were pre- sented the most memorable conflicts of two gal- lant nations. The inhabitants, at the commence- ment of this aera, formed the first wave of the tor- rent, which assaulted, and finally overwhelmed, the barriers of the Roman power in Britain. The subsequent events, in which they were engaged, tended little to diminish their military hardihood, or to reconcile them to a more civilized state of society. We have no occasion to trace the state of the Borders during the long and obscure period of Scottish history, which preceded the accession of the Stuart family. To illustrate a i'ew ballads, the — — VI INTRODUCTION. earliest of which is hardly coeval Avith James V., such an enquiry would he equally difficult and vain. If we may trust the Welch bards, in their account of the wars betwixt the Saxons and Danes of Deira 570 and the Cumraig, imagination can hardly ibrm any idea of conflicts more desperate, than were main- tained, on the Borders, between the ancient British and their Teutonic invaders. Thus, the Gododin describes the waste and devastation of mutual ha- voc, in colours so glowing, as strongly to recal the words of Tacitus ; " Et uhi solitudmem Juciunty pacem appellant.'"*' At a later period, the Saxon families, who fled from the exterminating sword of the Conqueror, with many of the Normans themselves, whom dis- content and intestine feuds had driven into exile. * In the spirited translation of this poem, by Jones, the fol- lowing verses are highly descriptive of the exhausted state of the victor array : At Madoc's tent the clarion sounds. With rapid clangour hurried far : Each echoing dell the note resotinds But when return the sons of war ! Thou, born of stern Necessity, Dull Peace ! the desert yields to thee, And owns thy melancholy sway. INTRODUCTION. Vll began to rise into eminence upon the Scottish Bor- ders. They brought with them arts, both of peace and of war, unknown in Scotland ; and, among their descendants, we soon number the most power- ful Border chiefs. Such, during the reign of the last Alexander, were Patrick, Earl of March, and 1249 Lord Soulis, renowned in tradition ; and such were also the powerful Comyns, who early acquired the principal sway upon the Scottish marches. In the civil wars betwixt Bruce and Baliol, all those power- 1300 ful chieftains espoused the unsuccessful party. They were forfeited and exiled ; and upon their ruins was founded the formidable house of Douglas. The Bor- ders, from sea to sea, were now at the devotion of a succession of mighty chiefs, whose exorbitant power threatened to place a new dynasty upon the Scot- tish throne. It is not my intention to trace the dazz- ling career of this race of heroes, whose exploits were alike formidable to the English and to their own sovereign. The sun of Douglas set in blood. The mu ders of the sixth Earl, and his brother, in the cas- tle of Edinburgh, were followed by that of their successor, poniarded at Stirling by the hand of Vm INTRODUCTION. his prince. His brother, Earl James, appeai-s nei- ther to have possessed the abilities nor the ambition of his ancestors. He drew, indeed, against his prince, the formidable sword of Douglas, but with a timid and hesitating hand. Procrastination ruined his cause ; and he was deserted, at Abercorn, by the knight of Cadyow, chief of the Hamiltons, and by his most active adherents, after they had ineffectual- ly exhorted him to commit his fate to the issue of a 1453 battle. The Border chiefs, who longed for indepen- dence, shewed little inclination to follow the decli- 1455 ning fortunes of Douglas. On the contrary, the most powerful clans engaged and defeated him, at Ark- inholme, in Annandale, when, after a short resi- dence in England, he again endeavoured to gain a footing in his native country.* The spoils of Dou- glas were libei'ally distributed among his conquer- ors, and royal grants of his forfeited domains effec- tually interested them in excluding his return. An 1457 attempt on the East Borders by " the Percy and the " DouglaSi both together^ was equally unsuccess- * At the battle of Arkinholme, the Earl of Angus, a near kinsman of Douglas, commanded the royal forces ; and the — — INTRODUCTION. IX ful. The Earl, grown old in exile, longed once more to see his native country, and vowed, that, upon Saint Magdalen's day, he would deposit his l*8S offering on the high altar at Lochmaben. Accom- panied by the banished Earl of Albany, with his usual fortune, he entered Scotland. The Border- ers assembled to oppose him, and he suffered a final defeat at Burnswark, in Dumfries-shire. The aged Earl was taken in the fight, by a son of Kirk- patrick of Closeburn, one of his own vassals, A grant of lands had been oflered for his person : " Carry me to the King !" said Douglas to Kirkpa- " trick : thou art well entitled to profit by my mis- fortune ; for thou v/ast true to me while I was true difterence of their complexion occasioned the saying, " that the Black Douglas had put dov.-n the Red." The Maxwells, the Johnstones, and the Scotts, composed his army. Archi- bald, Earl of JMurray, brother to Douglas, was slain in the action ; and Hugh, Earl of Ormond, his second brother, was taken and executed. His captors. Lord Carlisle, and the Baron of Johnstone, were rewarded with a grant of the lands of Pittinane, upon Clyde. Godscroft, vol. I. p. 375. Bal- four s MS. in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.—Abercrom~ bie's Achievements, vol. II. p. 361.. Jblio Edition.—The other chiefs were also distinguished by royal favour. By a charter, upon record, dated 25th February, 15i8, the king grants to Walter Scott of Kirkurd, ancestor of the house of Buccleuch, the lands of Abingtown, Pharchulm, and Glcntonan craig, in — ; X INTRODUCTION. to myself." The young man wept bitterly, and offered to fly with the Earl into England. But Douglas, weary of exile, refused his proffered li- berty, and only requested, that Kirkpatrick would not deliver him to the king, till he had secured his own reward. * Kirkpatrick did more : he stipu- Lanarlcshire, " Pro suojideli servitio nobis impenso et pro quod " interfuit in conflictu de Arkinholme in occisione et capHone " nostrorum reheUium quondam Archibaldi et Hugonis de Dou- " glas olim comitum Moravia; et de Ormond et aliorum rebel- " Hum nosti-orum in eorum comitivia existen : ibidem capioru?n " et inierfeciorum." Similar grants of land were made to Fin- nart and Arran, the two branches of the house of Hamilton to the chiefs of the Battisons ; but above all, to the Earl of Angus, who obtained from royal favour a donation ofthe Lord- ship of Douglas, and many other lands, now held by Lord Douglas, as his representative. There appears, however, to be some doubt, whether, in this division, the Earl of Angus received more than his natural right. Our historians, indeed, say, that WiUiara I. Earl of Douglas, had three sons ; 1. James, the 2d Earl, who died in the field of Otterbvirn ; 2. Archibald the Grim, 3d Earl ; and 3. George, in right of his mother. Earl of Angus. Wliether, however, this Archibald was actu- ally the son of William seems very doubtful ; and Sir David Dalrymple has strenuously maintained the contrary. Now, if Archibald the Grim intruded into the earldom of Douglas, without being a son of that family, it follows that the house of Angus, being kept out of their just rights for more than a cen- tury, were only restored to them after the battle of Arkin- holme. Perhaps this may help to account for the eager in- terest taken by the Earl of Angus against his kinsman. Re- marks on History of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1773, p. 121. * A grant of the king, dated 2d October, 1484, bestowed INTRODUCTION.
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